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Figures of the year In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 p.p. from 2019. Most spam (21.27%) originated in Russia. Kaspersky solutions detected a total of 184,435,643 malicious attachments. The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb malware family. The […] more…Unity’s new weapon for devs: Porting games to Firefox
Mozilla has teamed up with Unity to run its games on the Web without plugins — but with an add-on. Announced at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, the extension will ship later this year with the anticipated Unity 5.0. Powered by the Web graphics library WebGL and the JavaScript subset asm.js, the add-on […] more…Inside of the WASP’s nest: deep dive into PyPI-hosted malware
Photo by Matheus Queiroz on Unsplash In late 2022 we decided to start monitoring PyPI, arguably the most important Python repository, as there were a number of reports on it hosting malware. PyPI took exceptional relevance amongst all repositories as, historically, it was trusted by default by many software developers. Any security breach or abuse […] more…Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022
First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. Then we will go through the key events of 2021 relating to attacks on financial organizations. Finally, we will make some forecasts about financial attacks in 2022. Analysis of forecasts for 2021 […] more…IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures In Q2 2021, according to data from Kaspersky Security Network: 14,465,672 malware, adware and riskware attacks were prevented. The largest share of all detected threats accrued to RiskTool programs — 38.48%. 886,105 malicious installation […] more…Malicious Optimizer and Utility Android Apps on Google Play Communicate with Trojans that Install Malware, Perform Mobile Ad Fraud
By Lorin Wu (Mobile Threats Analyst) We recently discovered several malicious optimizer, booster, and utility apps (detected by Trend Micro as AndroidOS_BadBooster.HRX) on Google Play that are capable of accessing remote ad configuration servers that can be used for malicious purposes, perform mobile ad fraud, and download as many as 3,000 malware variants or malicious […] more…Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Top security stories
Introduction The internet is now woven into the fabric of our lives. Many people routinely bank, shop and socialize online and the internet is the lifeblood of commercial organizations. The dependence on technology of governments, businesses and consumers provides a broad attack surface for attackers with all kinds of motives – financial theft, theft of […] more…Mozilla, Epic bring Unreal engine to the web
Mozilla, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is advancing the Web as the platform for high-end game development. With Mozilla’s latest innovations in JavaScript, game developers and publishers can now take advantage of fast performance that rivals native while leveraging scale of the Web, without the additional costs […] more…More information
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